Physicians should seek to direct the minds of their patients to Christ, the Physician of soul and body. That which physicians can only attempt to do, Christ accomplishes. The human agent strives to prolong life. Christ is life itself. He who passed through death to destroy him that had the power of death is the Source of all vitality. There is balm in Gilead, and a Physician there. Christ endured an agonizing death under the most humiliating circumstances that we might have life. He gave up His precious life that He might vanquish death. But He rose from the tomb, and the myriads of angels who came to behold Him take up the life He had laid down heard His words of triumphant joy as He stood above Joseph’s rent sepulcher proclaiming: “I am the resurrection, and the life.” {6T 230.2}

Læger bør søge at lede deres patienters tanker til Kristus, som er legemets og sjælens læge. Hvad lægerne kun kan forsøge at udrette, fuldfører Kristus. Det menneskelige redskab forsøger at forlænge livet; Kristus er livet selv. Han, som gik igennem døden for at tilintetgøre den, der havde dødens vælde, er kilden til alt liv. Der er balsam i Gilead; en Læge findes der. Kristus tålte en kvalfuld død under de mest ydmygende forhold, for at vi kunne leve. Han gav afkald på sit dyrebare liv, for at han kunne sejre over døden. Men han opstod af graven og de myriader af engle, der kom for at se ham genoptage det liv, han havde nedlagt, hørte hans triumferende glædesord, da han stod over Josefs revnede grav og forkyndte: »Jeg er opstandelsen og livet.«